"All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious." Stephen King, "Joyland" When people think about Stephen King, the words that often come to mind are: gory, supernatural, weird and creepy but if you have read as many of his books as I have, you know that there is so much more to him as a writer. He is actually a beautiful words craftsman and master storyteller. The above quote from his latest should give you a glimpse of that. I fell in love with him when I was just a teenager and ate up every one of his early novels even though they caused me to lay awake at night scared out of my wit...
The fabulously eccentric non conformist, poet Allen Ginsberg said, "“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” This blog is not to gain followers or to show off my writing skills, but instead to express my thoughts and feelings about the world through words. I believe words have the power to change and move people and through writing them, change oneself. This is what I am doing in this blog...changing myself one word at a time.